Blog 2017

A review of Access 2012, held in downtown Montreal, and filled with great talks on a wide range of topics, from the future of the book, to the future of the library space, to the future of plastic fabrication.

ProQuest is the proud sponsor of the ACRL 2013 Conference Support Staff Scholarship which will provide eight library professionals the opportunity to attend this premier industry event. Candidate applications are due on Friday, November 9, 2012.

Serials Solutions and the Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS) worked together to improve access to Japanese-language article abstracts in Ichushi-Web through the Summon® web-scale discovery service.

JISC Collections and Serials Solutions are employing the ONIX for Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL) format to facilitate the exchange of data between their respective systems. Through this collaboration, licenses will be added to 360 Resource Manager, marking the first time JISC Collections’ licenses have been included in an ERM service.

The article touches on the great hope amongst librarians and content providers that discovery products will help promote information literacy. Libraries using the Summon service are finding this is more than a promise.